Sunday, July 7, 2013

Ft. Warren Prisoners

BOSTON, May 3.

Col. Davison, of the 3d Miss. Regiment captured at Ft. Donelson, died at Ft. Warren, on Tuesday.  His body has been sent to his friends.

Austin Smith, late navy agent at San Francisco, has been released from Ft. Warren, in exchanged for Wm. Ayers, of Philadelphia, who was captured while rambling over the battle field of Bull Run after the evacuation of Manassas.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 5, 1862, p. 1

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